| Links for June 23, 2006 |
[Jun. 23rd, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- TheStar.com – Happy up! It’s the happiest day of the year!
- “Cliff Arnall, a psychologist specializing in seasonal disorders, created a formula for finding happiness and his research indicated that [June 23] is the happiest day for a variety of reasons.”
- Video: Pablo Francisco impressions
- My old college roommate always played an MP3 of this comedy routine featuring impressions of the movie voiceover guy, Keanu Reeves, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hilarious.
- Cockeyed.com: NASCAR Drive-Thru Prank
- Rob Cockerham & Co. turn a Carl’s Jr. drive-thru into a NASCAR SPEEDWAY. Improv Everywhere-esque and a tad anticlimactic, but amusing nonetheless.
- Quiz: Hitler or Coulter?
- This is just scary. Can you guess which quotes are attributed to Adolf Hitler or Ann Coulter? (Cue Godwin’s Law… now.)
- diesel sweeties #1516: If it Wasn’t for Carbon-14, I Wouldn’t Date At All
- “There are only two kinds of people in this world. One wants to travel back in time to get drunk with pirates. The other wimply wants to travel back in time to see what color dinosaurs really were.”
- The Deep Sky Frontier
- A really, really, really big web site. “At 77 pixels to the inch, this page takes up 3.4e18 square miles and is 1.844 billion miles on a side … That’s about 17 billion times the surface area of the Earth.”
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| Links for June 20, 2006 |
[Jun. 20th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- A CFL in every Home = 1 Nuclear Power Plant
- A trade-in program to swap just one incandescent bulb in every home with a compact fluorescent bulb would save $4.1 billion over the lifetime of the bulbs and reduce energy needs the equivalent of one nuclear power plant’s output over the same period.
- 1,000 ways to open a beer bottle
- Learn how to open a beer bottle with an electric toothbrush, fuzzy handcuffs, a garden gnome, a chainsaw, and nearly a thousand other household objects.
- Wikipedia: List of fictional expletives
- In case your cursing repertoire is feeling a bit limited, why not try “prunt,” “slitch,” or the venerable “frak”?
- Matt Stone’s memo to the MPAA
- A scan of the memo Matt Stone sent to the MPAA in pursuing an R rating for the South Park movie. “The intent now is that you never see Saddam’s real penis, he in fact is using dildos both times.” The P.S. is the best part.
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| Links for June 07, 2006 |
[Jun. 7th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- The Monkey Chow Diaries
- “Can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? ... On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: ‘a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates.’”
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| Links for June 06, 2006 |
[Jun. 6th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- Shakespearean clichés
- A list of 150 everyday expressions that we wouldn’t have without Shakespeare. A few surprises (to me), like “foregone conclusion” (Othello), “eyesore” (Taming of the Shrew), “good riddance” (Troilus and Cressida), and “one fell swoop” (Macbeth).
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| Links for June 05, 2006 |
[Jun. 5th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- Video: Animator vs. Animation
- Really clever animation in which a Flash animator’s creation comes to life.
- The symmetry thesis
- Thesis: “A given person likes (loves) you as much as you like (love) him or her.” The counterexamples are many (or are they?), but the concept is very compelling.
- Slashdot’s new design goes live
- It looks like they’re still working out a few kinks, but Slashdot’s design has finally been updated to resemble something not eye-gougingly awful. I like (but don’t love) it, but it’s gonna take some getting used to.
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| Links for May 31, 2006 |
[May. 31st, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- Willard Wigan :: Micro Sculptor
- Willard Wigan makes incredibly tiny sculptures by hand, like the Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle and the cast of Peter Pan on a fish hook. He slows his heartbeat through meditation and sculpts literally between heartbeats to keep his hand steady.
- The A.V. Club: Worst Band Names Of ‘06
- Not quite 75 real live bands, including Mood Syrup, Knife Knife Gun, and Awesome Snakes.
- Casualties of the '05-'06 television season
- A pretty comprehensive, if not entirely comprehensive, list of characters who were killed off on this season’s most popular shows. Spoiler alert, obviously.
- memepool: Dezionized, Kirkless, and Hannibalized
- memepool on fan re-edits of movies, including a less silly version of the Matrix sequels, Star Trek VII without Shatner, a more actiony Con Air, and “13 Going On 30: Extra Flirty.” Weird.
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| Links for May 27, 2006 |
[May. 27th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- Wikipedia: List of Final Girls
- “The Final Girl is a screen archetype: the last (and almost always female) character left alive at the end of a horror film. This is a list of Final Girls that have featured in horror films, together with details of the actors who played them.”
- My Boring Ass Life » An 8 Minute Standing Ovation!
- Kevin Smith’s Clerks II debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last night to an eight minute standing ovation. I kid you not. Okay, now I’m really excited to see it.
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| Links for May 24, 2006 |
[May. 24th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
- Forbes’ Billionaires Map
- There are 793 billionaires in the world today, up from 476 three years ago. J.K. Rowling is #746. Four of the top 15 live in Bentonville, AR, and all four are named Walton. Africa has three, two of whom are white.
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